Hacking Speculations about Switch 2 hacking

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the thing is we don't know what new things nintendo will check, we avoided most bans by running homebrew via album or extended mem mode via a legit downloaded game pretty sure they have new checks like redirction to the hbmenu etc but that's just a guess
 
Supposedly, if CFW was released, you can theoretically install games on OFW the dump with CFW and avoid a ban that way no? Isn't that how digital games are dumped on Switch?
I never really used a title installer or emunand before but my method was always just boot of OFW with CFW loaded. From there update all your games, DLC, etc. Then just use NXDumpTool. Been doing it for years without issue.
 
Question(s) for my understanding.
If we did obtain a kind encryption key (is it ?) or algorythm to decryt a dump, would it be of any use ?
I mean, decrypting a game is a thing, making a custom firmware is another thing, hacking the switch 2 before booting (or while booting) must be another thing again.
Finally, to get the same scenario as the switch 1, aka CFW and homebrews (and game backups for drooling kids), we need to decrypt and "break or hack" some gates/barriers, I guess an encryption key is not enough, right ?
 
Question(s) for my understanding.
If we did obtain a kind encryption key (is it ?) or algorythm to decryt a dump, would it be of any use ?
I mean, decrypting a game is a thing, making a custom firmware is another thing, hacking the switch 2 before booting (or while booting) must be another thing again.
Finally, to get the same scenario as the switch 1, aka CFW and homebrews (and game backups for drooling kids), we need to decrypt and "break or hack" some gates/barriers, I guess an encryption key is not enough, right ?
The goals are:
Dump and decrypt a game card
reverse-engineer dual-core lockstep
 
The goals are:
Dump and decrypt a game card
reverse-engineer dual-core lockstep
I am reading that the atempts to do this just broke the console because the processor is specially designed for Nintendo. 0 docs, 0 guide even if in theory is somehow similar to the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. So we are real fkd. Literally we are shooting rocks in the dark. And the budget to buy a new console when an experiment fails is also a stopper
 
I am reading that the atempts to do this just broke the console because the processor is specially designed for Nintendo. 0 docs, 0 guide even if in theory is somehow similar to the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. So we are real fkd. Literally we are shooting rocks in the dark. And the budget to buy a new console when an experiment fails is also a stopper
The only thing so far is someone tried to read the memory bus and ended up frying the system by shorting the board.
 
The only thing so far is someone tried to read the memory bus and ended up frying the system by shorting the board.
As I said shooting rocks in the dark.. I am not losing hope to see my Switch 2 with a linux in the future but just need to keep it real and just wait a couple years until see real progress
 
As I said shooting rocks in the dark.. I am not losing hope to see my Switch 2 with a linux in the future but just need to keep it real and just wait a couple years until see real progress
Yeah it's the black box reverse engineering console hacking has just about always been...

I somehow get the feeling from the tone you have this idea this is not the usual way of things for some reason...
 
Yeah it's the black box reverse engineering console hacking has just about always been...

I somehow get the feeling from the tone you have this idea this is not the usual way of things for some reason...
Yeah somehow guilty,me as others thinked "This will be an easy/mid-difficult endevour" from previous experiences with Nintendo consoles but Nintendo make a really outstanding job learning from their mistakes and having a really secure console. We need to wait and let the researchers work there is nothing we can do in the meantime.
 
Yeah somehow guilty,me as others thinked "This will be an easy/mid-difficult endevour" from previous experiences with Nintendo consoles but Nintendo make a really outstanding job learning from their mistakes and having a really secure console. We need to wait and let the researchers work there is nothing we can do in the meantime.
Do remember that the Switch 1 wouldnt have any form of kernel exploit past firmware 7.0.0 if it wasnt for thr RCM exploit. On a software end Nintendo was already rather ontop of it.
 
Yeah somehow guilty,me as others thinked "This will be an easy/mid-difficult endevour" from previous experiences with Nintendo consoles but Nintendo make a really outstanding job learning from their mistakes and having a really secure console. We need to wait and let the researchers work there is nothing we can do in the meantime.
Nintendo is known to learn hard from their past mistakes when it comes down to exploits. They learnt a lot from Wii. But they really, really really learnt a lot from 3DS. But they especially learnt even more from Nintendo Switch
 
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I think the only mod we will have is some dude I saw on X that managed to attach an M2 SSD trickering the SD card reader but nothing else hahahah
Yeah they are rather similar standards so basic adapters can just do that. Wonder how much that mod lowered the battery life though lol.
 
As far as I know, the Switch 2 has a branch of a well known nVidia SOC that was already proven to have countless exploits even before the S2 was released, which is very reminiscent of the Switch 1's X1 nVidia chip which succumbed to similar exploits.
If we're all betting on how it'll be cracked, it's most probably a modship leveraging said exploits as it's the most probable way there is.
 
As far as I know, the Switch 2 has a branch of a well known nVidia SOC that was already proven to have countless exploits even before the S2 was released, which is very reminiscent of the Switch 1's X1 nVidia chip which succumbed to similar exploits.
If we're all betting on how it'll be cracked, it's most probably a modship leveraging said exploits as it's the most probable way there is.
May I have proof of this, other than "trust me bro".
 
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As far as I know, the Switch 2 has a branch of a well known nVidia SOC that was already proven to have countless exploits even before the S2 was released, which is very reminiscent of the Switch 1's X1 nVidia chip which succumbed to similar exploits.
If we're all betting on how it'll be cracked, it's most probably a modship leveraging said exploits as it's the most probable way there is.
Switch 2's T239 SoC is completely custom, made specifically for Nintendo. There is no branch connecting it to the off-the-shelf TX1 which had the purpose for Nvidia Shield called ReCovery Mode (RCM) to recover from fatal crashes.
 
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As far as I know, the Switch 2 has a branch of a well known nVidia SOC that was already proven to have countless exploits even before the S2 was released, which is very reminiscent of the Switch 1's X1 nVidia chip which succumbed to similar exploits.
If we're all betting on how it'll be cracked, it's most probably a modship leveraging said exploits as it's the most probable way there is.
There is zero proof of this this. It's a completely custom designed SoC specifically for the Switch 2 that uses Nvidia's Ampere architecture.
 
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As far as I know, the Switch 2 has a branch of a well known nVidia SOC that was already proven to have countless exploits even before the S2 was released, which is very reminiscent of the Switch 1's X1 nVidia chip which succumbed to similar exploits.
If we're all betting on how it'll be cracked, it's most probably a modship leveraging said exploits as it's the most probable way there is.
ChatGPT, Gemini and other AIs also hallucinate a lot. Do not trust blindly what they say.
 

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